About Me

I received my  PhD in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, a Master of Philosophy in Cultural Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication from the University of the West Indies. My most book, Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean, was published in 2023.  My  broader research focuses on queer experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean beyond notions of disease and violence, and the need to flee the region. I also investigate international queer asylum interventions in Canada and the Netherlands, and decolonial cultural formations in Trinidad and Tobago and the anglophone Caribbean. My work appears in several academic essays and my new co-edited collection titled Free Up Yuhself: Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque, which is published by Rutgers University Press.

You can purchase my books by clicking on the titles below:

Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean

Free Up Yuhself: Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque